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The motherless young woman is every Canadian’s daughter right now.
It is nowhere close enough to the real thing, of course. But it’s the best a sympathizing country can do for Joannie Rochette.
Only three days since the news was gently broken to Rochette that her mom, Therese, had collapsed and died shortly after arriving in Vancouver, the valiant 24-year-old took her aching heart onto the ice at Pacific Coliseum and skated from the depths of her soul, surrendering to the comforting embrace of her sport and the warm hug of the crowd.
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